Event 1

For Event 1, I decided to go to the Getty Museum with my friends. I was amazed how big the museum was and how interesting the garden sculptures are. The central garden, designed by Robert Irwin, with the maze of plants design in the middle was my favorite sculpture. Then while I was exploring one of the buildings, I found the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was a famous Polaroid camera photographer, he has about three rooms dedicated to his photographs. My favorite photo was probably the “Coral Sea” photograph from 1983. I liked how the fog gives a little mystery, how the subject is at the very bottom of the photo, and use of all the negative space up top. The best part about it guessing how he took the photo.

https://www.google.com/searchq=coral+sea+robert+
mapplethorpe&biw=1309&bih=670&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilt-I5r7MAhUQ6GMKHWUxDQkQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=fUgHTJfMxIAoSM%3A

However Mapplethorpe was notoriously known for his nude photos. Some found his work to extreme but his photos that were displayed I thought were tasteful. Relating to week 4, the “MedTech + Art” lecture videos mentioned how artists would paint the outside and inside of bodies for scientific purposes. Instead Mapplethorpe used a paloroid to photograph his subjects in unique nude positions. For example in the photograph titled "Thomas", combined with lighting and angles, these unique positions are beautiful and artistic. Scientifically, they show how flexible and muscular a human body can be.

https://www.google.com/searchq=robert+mapplethorpe+thomas+1986&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6mKuQ777MAhVH_
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I would definitely recommend his exhibit at the Getty museum. His photos are very interesting and the other exhibits offered were also very cool. 

I am one over from the right.

Cite:

"Biography." The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. 2015. Web. 03 May 2016.

"Robert Mapplethorpe." Artsy. 2016. Web. 03 May 2016.

Mapplethorpe, Robert. Coral Sea. 1983. Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Mutual Art. Web. 3 May 2016.
Mapplethorpe, Robert. Thomas. 1987. Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Guggenheim. Web. 3 May 2016.
Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. Medicine pt3. Youtube, 22 Apr. 2012. Web. 3 May 2016.